The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-09-28
BISHOP GALLoWAYs REPLY
TO THE
Open Letter of Ex-President Davis.
BRooKHAyss. MIss Sent. % g;

BRooKHAvES, MISS, Sept. %, 's7.
HoS. JEFFERSON DAvIs-DEAR SIR:
have read with interest your "open let
ter" of Sept z, addressed to me and
published in The CLARION of Sept. II
and various papers on the 10Th inst.
| Absence in the State of Arkansas on
official duty has prevented an earlier
response. As reference is made to our
privaue correspondence TO show cause
for your appeal to the public, thereby
creating the impression that have been
guilty of personal discourtesy, besides
| strangely misconstruing your Texas let
ter, prefer to publish that part of my
address to which you object and our
letters relating thereto in full. The
public can then see the head and front
of my offending and the occasion of
your "open letter"
In the Times Democrat of August II
there was special from Brookhaven,
Miss, giving account of an anniversary
| celebration of the local option election
in Lincoln county, at which addresses
were delivered by Judge Chrisman,
Rev. j. K. Parish and myself. The
special concluded as follows:
| "Bishop Galloway spoke at length, and in
the course of some cheering remarks on
the Texas election referred to the Davis
letter as follows:
| 81 have only one regret about the mem
orable contest in Texas. Not 30 much
/ that the amendment was defeated. for that
| is only temporary, but that the great name
of the most distinguished Mississippian
should have been used in favor of the
L aio0r and moral
| Though thoroughly national IN my con-
victions, glad there is a star on the flag Of
our republic that answers to the name Of
Mississippi, have revered the genius and
admired the history OF the Hon. Jefferson
Davis. 1t has been source of gratifiea-
ton that the chief of the lost cause lives
within the commonwealth that honored
him long and trusted him implicitly, and
| where the balmy breeZes of our coast may
fan his aged brow and the waves of the
Southern Gulf battle his weary feet. While
neither forgetting nor apologizing for his
part in the late conflict, that severed for a
season the two great sections of our reuni-
ted country, l recall with pride his splen-
did services to the nation from the day he
led his brave battalions on the plains of
Buena Vista to his regretful retirement
from seat in the United States Senate.
| Anu sluCc Tic CscI-LO~DS-ldUQSuLGu war De-
tween the States | have admired his quiet
patience, his beautiful resignation, his
manly dignity and his sublime conscious
ness of untainted honor and interrupted
integrity. But that his pen should have
been betrayed into writing line against
the reform of the age gives me pain and
/ the more regret it because great states
man, familiar with profound constitution
al problems, should have repeated the
platitudes on personal liberty which have
been exploded by the leading law writers
of America, and forever settled by the de.
clarations of the Supreme Court of the
United States. / did hope that his stormy
life would have peaceful close; that his
sun would go down without feck OF
cloud in the sky ); but that unfortunate
utterance will obscure the radiance of his
eventide, and leave a shadow upon his
memory. How sad that the last words OF
soldier, sage and Christian should be.
come the shibboleth of the saloons"
Then followed the correspondence
BEAUvoIR, Miss, Aug. 13, 1887.
Ri. Rev. Bishop Galloway, of Mississippi
My Dear Sir-The Times-Democrat Of
New Orleans, OF the 18th inst, publishes
what purports to be your remarks In re.
1
Lubbock, of Texas, in which it is referred
to as being "In favor of the open saloon
and against moral reform"
Again L am referred TO as having been
"betrayes into writing line against the
reform of the age" and at the close you
are represented as referring to my words
as "having become the shibboleth of the
saloons" The high respect L entertain
for you, both personally and as a dignita.
ry of the Methodist Church South, renders
it painful to me to be thus criticised by
you. l can but believe you have accepted
some Misrepresentation of what / wrote
instead of the text of the letter itself.
trust you will, therefore, pardon me for
asking you to mark on the printed copy of
the enclosed letter the passages which to
your mind justify the remarks you are re-
ported to have used in regard to what i
have written. Very respectfully yours,
JEFFERSON DAVIS.